The Road
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- Publication date
- 2014-07-30
- Usage
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- librivox, audiobooks, memoirs, tramps, trains, vagrancy, USA,
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 933.3M
LibriVox recording of The Road by Jack London.
Read in English by Barry Eads.
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic strangers. In The Road, he relates the tales and memories of his days on the hobo road, including how the hobos would elude train crews and his travels with Kelly’s Army. - Summary by Barry Eads.
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- Addeddate
- 2014-07-30 09:06:43
- Boxid
- OL100020218
- Call number
- 8970
- External-identifier
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urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:the_road_1407_librivox
- Identifier
- the_road_1407_librivox
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 9.0
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 4:44:46
- Year
- 2014
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Reviewer:
Charlie Heinz
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October 28, 2017
Subject: Indeed, Jean Shepherd Type Tales of Half Truths
Subject: Indeed, Jean Shepherd Type Tales of Half Truths
What some other poster said. I agree. His tales of hitching a free ride on a train are akin to movie scripts where all the good bums manage by super hero
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tricks to get rides. If it was real life, he would be dead from such antics. But it is entertaining. And that's OK.
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Hal Swenson
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October 18, 2016
Subject: Good Reading & Good Story
Subject: Good Reading & Good Story
The story and recording of THE ROAD is quite good. However, I doubt the truthfulness of his adventures. Any normal person would be dead in no time. Therefore,
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I place Jack London in about the same category as Jean Shepherd, who had an hour monologue for years on WOR, New York City. His stories were combinations of fact and fancies akin to Jack London.
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